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Wasn't that a past NSA under different leadership? Today's NSA may behave differently.
by api 8y ago
Wasn't that a past NSA under different leadership? Today's NSA may behave differently.
- tptacek 8y agoIt's not my argument that we should trust NSA. We shouldn't. It's that differential cryptanalysis isn't an example of how NSA would backdoor a cipher design, and that the nature of a NOBUS backdoor is more complex than "a weakness only the NSA knows about". Dual EC doesn't have a "weakness" so much as it has a cryptographically secure access mechanism.
- api 8y agoIf I were to place a bet I'd bet that Speck in particular is fine. It's so damn simple there is just no place to put a lever. But... it would not be a very large bet. :)